VerticalNews Launch Uses NewsRx Artificial Intelligence Technology.(Brief Article)

2001 JUL 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --

NewsRx, the leading provider of life science databases and daily and weekly health news, has leveraged its technology platform to create a new media company, VerticalNews.

VerticalNews' two-year goal is 3,000 articles each week. The articles will appear in a variety of print and electronic titles.

VerticalNews' apparently boundless capacity is driven by NewsRx propriety artificial intelligence (A.I.) systems: Component Aggregation Technology (CAT) and Journalist Assisted Technology (JAT). Artificial intelligence is the ability of a computer to perform activities normally thought to require intelligence. CAT and JAT assist human journalists in performing vast publishing and news reporting tasks.

"Producing this quantity of material without such A.I. Datadroid systems would be comparable to space exploration minus the rocket," said NewsRx director of business development and technology, Alan Henderson. CAT and JAT were developed over the last 11 years under his direction at NewsRx.

"The future of information distribution clearly depends on advancing technology. What we have here may be the Gutenberg press of the 21(st) century," he said.

Over the next two years, NewsRx is expanding beyond health care through VerticalNews, which will create hundreds of new periodicals containing over 3,000 articles each week serving most industry sectors.